The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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In 1859, the largest known geomagnetic storm struck the Caribbean, causing an aurora and telegraphs could even operate without a power source.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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